Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-08-11
The Romance of Il Shoe.

Once upon a time, there was q
quaint old house with odd gables
and odd stacks of chimneys-with
odd shaped rooms, and doors where
windows should naturally have ap.
pearcd, and il was place where q
lot of young people came to chatter
and COO and peek at cherries and
berries, like magpics and turtle
doves and robins, through the happy
summers.
And the quaint old house sat in
the midst of garden as quaint and
queer and irregular as itself, and in
To this garden there came young
man and young woman from OPP
posite directions, whom fate, fortune
and a bachelor uncle had designed
for each other, but whom perversity
which is born neither of heaven
nor management-seemcd bent up.
on keeping asunder.
Gayette Sommcrville had bright,
piquant face, and bright, piquant
ways, and it was easy to love her;
but one would as soon expect senti.
ment of lady yellow Jacket as OF
this yellow haired, yellow eyed girl,
and Ebert Setoun had about deter.
mined TO rcnounce his half interest
in the bachelor uncle's estate rath.
er than longer subject himself to
the G. gent humors of the lady -faire
only that he was really fond OF the
aggravating creature, and could not
give up when he would.
So they came into the garden
from opposite directions, and walk
ing through the tangled, shaded
paths, Gay first approached a grca,
wide-spreading tree, loaded on cv.
cry branch with rare white cherries,
ripe to deliciousness
a ladder reached from the ground
to It's fruity limbs, and from behind
a blackthorn bush, almost in shade
of the cherry tree, Ebert Setoun
saw the young woman climb lithely
up the rungs until her two small feet
were planted firmly upon the round
strong lower limb against which the
ladder rested, and, with the robins.
she began whistling and examining
the rare ripe cherries into her red
mouth between notes.
Essaying to step up higher; a saucy
twig caught at the bow OH her jaunty :
shoe and in an instant the small
thing went brushing through the
leaves carthward.
For a moment Gay looked rueful-
ly down at the boot lying proyok
ingly demure on the grass, and back
10 the slip Of foot i'm the dainty
silken stocking; but the cherries
hung in luscious clusters over hei
head; the robins whistled loudly
on their swinging perches; great
frecbooting bees sailed in and out
taking honey and leaving stings
the golden caterpillars rolled dys.
peptically away from the banquet
in blankets Of leaves, and, kissing
her hand 20 the vagabond shoe. Gay.
ette said, ia mock petulanoe. Lay
there, you beggar; until come fof
your and presently forgot all but
herself, the summer time. the sting.
ing bee, the thieving robins, and
the ripe, sweet fruit.
Meantime, Ebert Setoun stole
away from the friendly thorn thick
et, and returning again, crouched
low in his ambush, and uncoiling
a burch Of gardner's wire, he pro.
cceded to make loop in one end oi
il, and to carefully work it over the
short grass, until, reaching it. en-.
eircled the heel Of my lady Gays
wayward boot. Care and patience
were both exerted to bring the trinc
Of leather and satin into the angler
hands, but the feat was accomplish.
ed. And then a most ridiculous
exhibition Of sentiment occurred
after which the young man tucked
the little shoe most uncomfortably
into the inner breast pocket Of his
coat and went softly away.
And, after a time, the cherries
grew high and the sun grew hot,
the bees grew impertinent, and the
robins few with full beaks away
o. their nestlings and my lady Cay
climbed down the ladder, tumbline
ihl Golden cliclpillars from tlctr